Specific Heat and Latent Heat in Finite and Infinite One-Component Plasmas

摘要

The phase transition from liquid to ordered state has been explored in Molecular Dynamics simulations of confined one-component plasma clouds (as in ion traps). The latent heat and specific heat have been extracted and compared with Coulombic matter. The transition temperature is found to be lower for finite systems than for infinite matter, and the difference depends on the number of confined particles.